Adult sites at the Dallas VA North Texas Healthcare System and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center will present posters at the ACR Convergence Conference 2020. Sponsored by the Arthritis Foundation, their work showcases the importance of incorporating the principles of coproduction in clinical care to support patient-provider partnerships to create better health and outcomes.
At the Dallas VA, clinicians in a high-volume clinic have shown that they can successfully partner with their RA patients to coproduce care by eliciting their goals, engaging in shared decision making about next steps, and documenting coproduced goals and care plans in the EHR.
Veterans with RA are primarily concerned with improving their pain, and they envision working in partnership with their clinicians to meet their goals.
At Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, clinicians have demonstrated the use of a point-of-care rheumatology dashboard to support in-person review and discussion of patient-reported outcomes, key clinical data, and treatment/medications to facilitate collaboration and foster shared decision making between RA patients and their clinicians.